Town boss Mick McCarthy has named the expected side for this evening’s game back at his old club Millwall with all four of his strikers starting.

David McGoldrick looks set to partner Joe Garner up front with Martyn Waghorn likely to be on the right and Freddie Sears on the left.

Flynn Downes travelled having suffered knocks at Barnsley on Saturday but isn’t in the 18 with Grant Ward partnering Cole Skuse in the centre of a four-man midfield.

At the back, Jordan Spence again seems likely to partner skipper Luke Chambers at centre-half with Dominic Iorfa at right-back and Jonas Knudsen on the left. Bartosz Bialkowski is in goal.

On-loan midfielder Bersant Celina misses out as he is again unwell, while Michael Crowe is the sub keeper with Dean Gerken not making the trip for personal reasons.

With 10 first-team players currently unavailable - Celina, Gerken, Downes, Tommy Smith, Adam Webster, Teddy Bishop, Tom Adeyemi, Luke Hyam, Andre Dozzell and Emyr Huws - Town name a very inexperienced bench with Myles Kenlock having made the largest number senior appearances for the Blues.

Millwall: Archer, McLaughlin, Hutchinson, Webster, Meredith, Wallace, Saville, Williams, O’Brien, Morison (c), Gregory. Subs: King, Craig, Thompson, Onyedinma, Ferguson, Elliott, Cooper.

Town: Bialkowski, Iorfa, Spence, Chambers (c), Knudsen, Skuse, Ward, Waghorn, Sears, McGoldrick, Garner. Subs: Crowe, Rowe, Nydam, Kenlock, Morris, McDonnell. Referee: James Linington (Newport, Isle of Wight).

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Tractorboy1985 added 19:12 - Aug 15 Wow.. now that is an attacking line up! We can't give him stick for not going for it! 1-3 town I'm going for! COYB!!!
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RobITFC added 19:13 - Aug 15 Phil - also wolfenden on the bench
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tractorboyjim added 19:16 - Aug 15 Well done Mick for going for it! Average age of our bench is about 18?! 90% of football is Confidence, let's stick it to them! COYB
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TimmyH added 19:17 - Aug 15 Crikey! a very adventurous looking team and certainly attack minded so hats off to Mick for that...rather Kenlock at LB than Knudsen but overall starting 11 looks okay considering the injuries/illness. On another note, Celina sick again!?!...what is going on down at PR these days, we'll have to install hand sanitizers before long.
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clogger added 19:17 - Aug 15 Celina - Kosovan for Sicknote
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iaintaylorx added 19:19 - Aug 15 What has Mick been smoking, because I want some!? To me, this season is showing a completely different side to Mick and if he continues to play nice football and pick the best team available, he'll get my full support - considering last season I was in the 'Mick out brigade'! This is positive and I am liking it!!!
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TractorBeezer added 19:19 - Aug 15 Woohoo......we'll be up 5-0 by HT. I am liking the new MM! UTTBs
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NoCanariesAllowed added 19:20 - Aug 15 Basically the reverse of the Barnsley game then - four strikers on the pitch first half then probably relying on youngsters in the second. Fingers crossed we see a much better start tonight!
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frantblue added 19:23 - Aug 15 Great line up, fantastic to see, we should be going to the clubs likely to be bottom end of the league, at the end of the season, and lining up for the win and not to try and not loose wish I could get there
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OwainG1992 added 19:27 - Aug 15 Anyone have the same reaction of wtf? Jeez Mick is going for it!!! Fair play. We could have a decent score line here in my opinion! Come on lads!!!!
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jas0999 added 19:31 - Aug 15 To be fair, Mick had very few options. I may be wrong, but suspect were unlikely to start with such an attacking line up on a regular basis. Great to see though.
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steve1968 added 19:31 - Aug 15 Please please no more injuries and a 2-1 win coyb
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hoppy added 19:32 - Aug 15 Sounds like a subs bench from Trumpton there... Crowe, Rowe, Nydam, McDonnell, Kenlock, Morris ...and grub?
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osborne added 19:32 - Aug 15 Attack, Attack, Attack, Attack. Love it. Up the Town!
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martin587 added 19:33 - Aug 15 I don't think Mick had much choice with all the injuries but I like the look of the team.COYB 3 points would be nice.🤔
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mow_the_lawn added 19:33 - Aug 15 Impressive starting 11, but if it doesn't work, we've got nothing really to change to from the bench, just Rowe potentially.
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carsey added 19:34 - Aug 15 The only problem I forsee is unlike Saturday McCarthy has no impact available from the bench but fair play he seems to be going after Millwall so here's hoping it works and Freddie gets off the mark. COYB
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cat added 19:35 - Aug 15 You wily old Dino you!!! Feck me, that's one extreme to the other. On a more serious note, 4 strikers and a dare I say it - a weak defence, there should be goals if nothing else. Let's hope we score more!! As we're away and a tad depleted I'd take the draw.
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BlueandTruesince82 added 19:37 - Aug 15 4 striker Mick eh?
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JimmyP45 added 19:47 - Aug 15 And...all the optimism destroyed. 1-0 down :-(
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runningout added 19:49 - Aug 15 Someone's asleep
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JimmyP45 added 19:59 - Aug 15 Redemption!
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miltonsnephew added 20:23 - Aug 15 MICKS WORDS at Halftime is gonna be a BONKERS GAME!!
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Fatboy added 20:24 - Aug 15 Top of the league! (as it stands)
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Fatboy added 20:26 - Aug 15 Didn't stand for long!
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